This was the Teacher's Book Club selection for August, but due to all the crazy of back to school, we didn't meet until last night.
Lenni is 17 and Margot is 83. They are both terminal (cancer and heart respectively) and meet in a hospital art therapy class. They decide to paint their collective 100 years to tell their lives stories. If you've followed this blog for a bit, you know we try to match the restaurant to the setting or theme or characters. So, we decided to do a paint night. A BIG shout out to Picasso Paints in West Haven for hosting us. Darcy created a painting that resembled the book cover and led us through creating our own. It was a lot of fun and definitely not something I would've done on my own.
This was also not a book I would have chosen on my own, which is part of the beauty of a book club. It is a really beautiful story of friendship and explores history through Margot's life experiences and the realm of the childhood cancer patient through Lenni's. Lenni does pass away, but the reader does not know Margot's fate after her heart surgery. I like to think she survives, gets on a plane, and flies to find her true love.
One of the discussion questions Mrs. Howland (who chose this book and moderated) asked was "if you were going to paint your life's most important moment, what would it be?" For me, the birth of my son would of course be first followed by my wedding day.
Find this on display with our new books (all donated by me or fundraised as our actual book order hasn't arrived yet) soon.
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